社会的兴盛与政治的衰退——阿伦特对社会领域的现代性批判

Social Prosperity and Political Decline——A Study on Arendt’s Criticism of Modernity in the Social Sphere

针对政治衰退的现代性困境,文章研究了阿伦特对社会领域的批评思想,对社会领域兴起所产生的消极政治后果作出了重要补充和完善。文章通过对社会领域政治危害的系统研究发现,阿伦特所作的私人领域、社会领域和公共领域的划分是她进行现代性批判的重要框架,也是我们理解政治现代性的重要理论工具。社会领域入侵政治领域,将私人领域家务管理的必然性带入自由的政治领域,继而引起了市民的兴起、公民的衰亡以及政治在人类活动中地位的衰退。面对社会领域对政治和人造成的侵蚀,我们有必要重新审视公共政治对人生意义实现所具有的积极意义。

In view of the dilemma of modernity caused by political decline,this paper studies Arendt's critical thoughts on the social sphere and makes an important supplement and improvement to the negative political consequences of the rise of the social sphere.Through a systematic study of the political hazards in the social sphere,this paper finds that Arendt's division of private sphere,social sphere and public sphere is not only an important framework for her criticism of modernity,but also an important theoretical tool for us to understand political modernity.The invasion of the social sphere into the political sphere brings the inevitability of domestic management in the private sphere into the free political sphere,which then leads to the rise of bourgeois,the decline of citizens and the decline of politics in human activities.In the face of the erosion of politics and people caused by the social sphere,it is necessary for us to re-examine the positive significance of public politics to the realization of the meaning of life.